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Fraternity members at North Carolina's flagship school were part of a drug trafficking ring that for years funneled huge quantities of drugs into three college campuses, federal prosecutors said Thursday.

Rome's homeless sent sunflowers to Pope Francis for his 84th birthday on Thursday and the pontiff marked the day by sending four ventilators to hospitals in Venezuela, the Vatican said.

Congressional negotiators on the longdelayed $900 billion COVID19 economic relief package worked through a handful of remaining holdups Thursday as they labored to seal a final agreement for more help to businesses and the unemployed and new stimulus paym...

From the wideopen spaces of a U.S. tribal nation to urban hospital emergency rooms, doctors, nurses and delivery people are wrestling with challenges in the rollout of Pfizer and BioNTech's COVID19 vaccine including delays, anxiety and keeping the drug a...

A video circulating on social media on Thursday purportedly showed Islamist militant group Boko Haram with some of the hundreds of schoolboys kidnapped last week in northwest Nigeria.

Vice President Mike Pence will publicly receive the coronavirus vaccine on Friday as the Trump administration scrambles to build public support for an inoculation that promises to stanch the deadly pandemic.

New Zealand will begin to offer free COVID19 vaccines to its entire population by the middle of next year, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said on Thursday.

Fiji ordered its entire population to take shelter on Thursday in the path of what is expected to be the worst storm in its recorded history.

The United States has warned Pacific island nations about security threats posed by a Chinese company's cutprice bid to build an undersea internet cable, two sources told Reuters, part of an international development project in the region.

U.S. prosecutors said on Wednesday they had charged a Kenyaborn militant with terrorismrelated offenses, including conspiring to hijack aircraft for a 9/11style attack on an American target on behalf of the Somalibased alShabaab militant group.

A Missouri state lawmaker allegedly had sex with an intern and then threatened a staffer to keep quiet about it, according to a House Ethics Committee report released Wednesday.

U.S. officials say theyre actively negotiating for additional purchases of Pfizers coronavirus vaccine after passing up a chance to lock in a contract this summer since it was still unclear how well the shots would work.

Last week, the UK began administering the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine in a phased manner, starting with the elderly and frontline workers as categories at the highest risk of death from coronavirus.

President Donald Trump is considering pushing to have a special counsel appointed to advance a federal tax investigation into the son of Presidentelect Joe Biden, setting up a potential showdown with incoming acting attorney general Jeffrey Rosen.

More than a month after the election, top Republicans finally acknowledged Joe Biden as the next U.S. president on Tuesday, a collapse in GOP resistance to the millions of voters who decisively chose the Democrat. Foreign leaders joined the parade, too, i...

Up to a quarter of a million children, young people and vulnerable adults were abused in New Zealand's faithbased and state care institutions in the past several decades, a public inquiry revealed on Wednesday.